One Room at a Time: The Beginning

When I began this blog, my intention was to write about DIY, affordable home organizing, décor, crafts, and the occasional crochet and knit project. I still intend to do those things, but I wanted to begin with a series of posts showing the transformation of my home, one room at a time.

Now that you have seen my beautiful project that made a small portion of my home look organized, I am going to show you the rest of my home. Warning: this is not for the faint of heart. You may not want your small children to be present. I am warning you and asking you to be forgiving of this tragedy because I am a full time graduate student and simply do not have the time to keep a clean and organized home. My husband and I are gone all day, five days a week. Beginning now, I am going to make time. I will admit that the reason I have neglected my home is because of my lack of time management skills, not because of an actual lack of time. Now that you have read the disclaimer, you can begin the tour of my little slice of the suburbs.

The Dining Room

It is tax time and all of my tax papers are somewhere in a pile lying on our dish hutch. For this reason I decided to begin the transformation of my home with my dining room. The photo was uploaded from my phone so I apologize for the quality. I will add better photos when I am not rushing to get to class on time.

 

This is the dish hutch and keyboard in our dining room...what is a keyboard doing in the dining room? I did plan on putting it into storage, but...well, I'll do it later. I'm beginning to think I should call this series: "Memoirs of a Procrastinator" or "A Day in the Life of a Hoarder".  

 



The center of our dining room, what should be our dining room table. It's more of a shelf for now. You can see that it is also my sewing station...I NEED a craft room. I also holds last night's dinner plates and drinks, some napkins, a Christmas gift, all of our winter accessories, and some other miscellany. Please enjoy the solar dancing penguin in the back, right-hand corner.

 

This is the bar with no bar stools. It is also serving as a shelf for the time being. It holds vases from my friend's wedding in July, bubbles for blowing (obviously), a tape measure, a few cans of Sprite, an external hard drive that had to be repaired, and a cake that I made for my husband's birthday (only three weeks old).

 

 

I have to admit that I was hesitant, to say the least, to put these pictures on the internet for everyone to see. It is embarrassing. I know that I make excuses for the state of my home, but finding the time really is difficult. I wanted to share my experience and difficulties, because I am going to assume that I am not the only person who has a messy house because of a busy schedule. In the next post, this weekend, I will outline some of the first steps to organizing this space and making it feel more like home.